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Dr. Howard SnyderBureau of Justice StatisticsDr. Howard N. Snyder is Deputy Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics within the U.S. Department ofJustice. He is responsible for BJS activities in the areas of law enforcement, prosecution, courts and recidivismand for BJS’ special projects. These include periodic surveys of law enforcement agencies, forensiclaboratories, prosecutor offices, indigent defense services, and tribal justice systems, as well as the collectionof case-level data from criminal and appellate courts and all phases of the federal justice system. He overseesBJS’ portfolio of recidivism studies that includes investigations of the recidivism patterns of persons releasedfrom state prisons, offenders placed on federal probation, and juvenile offenders. Underlying these recidivismstudies is a newly-developed software infrastructure that mines and then standardizes the information foundin the Nation’s criminal history repositories. He also oversees the National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X),an initiative designed to provide the Nation with a detailed description of the crimes known to lawenforcement through expanding the sample of law enforcement agencies reporting incident-based data to theFBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System. Over the years he has published hundreds of articles andreports and has given hundreds of presentations to professional conferences across the country. He washonored in 2004 for his lifetime contribution to research by the American Correctional Association with itsPeter P. Lejins Research Award and in 2010 by the American Society of Criminology with its August VollmerAward for his research in, and accumulated contributions to, the field of criminology. He has served onnumerous advisory committees, including as the Chair of the American Correctional Association’s ResearchCouncil and the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Law and Justice Statistics.Alexia Cooper, Ph.D.Bureau of Justice StatisticsAlexia Cooper has been a statistician with the Recidivism and the Law Enforcement Units of the Bureau ofJustice Statistics (BJS) for 5 years. Her work has focused primarily on recidivism, homicide, and special topicssuch as crimes known to law enforcement. In the last few years she has acted as the project manager andsubject matter expert for BJS’ National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X), a collaborative effort aimed atgenerating a nationally-representative, incident-level database on crimes reported to law enforcementagencies. She received her MA in Social Ecology and her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from theUniversity of California, Irvine.Erica SmithBureau of Justice StatisticsErica L. Smith is a Statistician in the Recidivism, Re-Entry and Special Projects Statistics Unit at the Bureau ofJustice Statistics within the US Department of Justice. She has more than 15 years of experience in conductingresearch and data collection in the field of criminal justice. More recently, Ms. Smith’s research has focused onelder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, and the nexus of elder abuse with other forms of family and intimatepartner violence. Current projects include assessing the feasibility of using administrative data from stateAdult Protective Services agencies for statistical reporting purposes, examining the processing of elder abuseand neglect cases by local prosecutors, developing strategies for measuring victimization and abuse amongpersons living in nursing homes and other group quarters residential facilities, and examining the use ofincident based data collected by law enforcement agencies for understanding hidden types of victimizationsuch as elder abuse and sexual violence of children. In addition to her research portfolio, Ms. Smith serves asco-chair of the Federal Interagency Elder Justice Working Group, co-chair of the Office of Justice ProgramsJuvenile Justice Research Working Group, and serves as BJS liaison to the Planning Committee of the FederalInteragency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. Ms. Smith recently concluded a detail with theAdministration on Aging at the US Department of Health and Human Services, providing direct programsupport to the Elder Justice Coordinating Council. Prior to joining BJS, Ms. Smith served as adjunct faculty inthe Department of Justice, Law, and Society at American University where she taught undergraduate courseson research methodology, statistics, and criminal justice. Before moving to Washington, DC, she was aDevelopment and Campaign Assistant with the Michigan Regional Office of the City of Hope National MedicalCenter and Beckman Research Institute

Kelle Barrick, Ph.D.RTI InternationalKelle Barrick, PhD, joined RTI International in 2008 as a research criminologist in the Center for Justice,Safety, and Resilience. Dr. Barrick’s current research focuses on crime in a rural oil boom region, humantrafficking, criminal justice reform, and desistance from crime and violence. In 2009, she received theAmerican Society of Criminology’s Outstanding Article Award for a paper on the impact of felony labeling onrecidivism. She also has extensive experience with program evaluation across a broad range of areas,including prisoner reentry, jail reform, crime and violence reduction, community corrections, crimelaboratory efficiency, homeland security, and responses to domestic violence. Dr. Barrick formerly served asthe assistant editor for the Journal of Drug Issues.Stephen M. HaasWest Virginia Office of Research and Strategic Planning - DirectorStephen M. Haas is director of the West Virginia Office of Research and Strategic Planning (ORSP) and deputydirector of the Division of Justice and Community Services (DJCS). The ORSP houses the Criminal JusticeStatistical Analysis Center (CJSAC) and Justice Center for Evidence Based Practice (JCEBP). He has a B.A. inpsychology and political science from The Ohio State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in criminal justicefrom the University of Cincinnati. He has served as principal investigator and project director on several stateand federally funded research projects and evaluations and has published numerous research reports andacademic papers on various topics in the field of criminology, education, and health and human services. Hispeer‐reviewed works include studies published in journals such as American Behavioral Scientist, Victimsand Offenders, Justice Research and Policy, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, the Journal of QuantitativeCriminology, the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, and the American Correctional Association’s CorrectionsCompendium.Dan BibelMassachusetts State PoliceMr. Bibel has had extensive experience dealing with crime reporting issues and concerns over the past 30years at the local, state, and national levels. He was the Program Manager for the Crime Reporting Unit of theMassachusetts State Police for 25 years. As such, he was in charge of the Uniform Crime Reporting Programfor Massachusetts. In his time in that office, he implemented the NIBRS program for the Commonwealth,provided training and auditing services to local police agencies, and developed statistical and web-basedapplications to report both NIBRS and summary UCR data. He worked closely with both local lawenforcement agencies and with vendors of record management systems.At the national level, Mr. Bibel was twice elected president of the Association of State Uniform CrimeReporting Programs (1991, 2010), and represented the Association as a member of the FBI’s UCR/NIBRSsubcommittee (2010-2015). In that role, he attended and presented at meetings of the FBI’s Advisory PolicyBoard. He was Chair of the Policy Focus Group for the FBI’s National Data Exchange project, 2003-2005.He is currently a member of the National Academy of Science’s Panel on Modernizing the Nation's CrimeStatistics (2010-present) and the IJIS UCR/NIBRS subcommittee (2011-present).He has presented and published on the strengths, weaknesses, and utility of police crime data for analysis andtactical/operational usage.

Kevin WongRocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program – Lead StrategicIntelligence AnalystKevin Wong has been a crime and intelligence analyst since 2003. He has worked for the Phoenix PoliceDepartment (Arizona) and Denver Police Departments as well as the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Kevinjoined the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program in 2013 as the lead strategicintelligence analyst. He is regarded as a subject matter expect in the area on the impact of the legalization ofmarijuana to Colorado. Kevin graduated from Arizona State University with concurrent degrees in Psychologyand Sociology, and holds a Crime Analysis and Intelligence Analysis certification and his master’s degree inCriminal Justice from the University of Colorado.Greg SwansonFederal Bureau of Investigation – Training InstructorMr. Swanson has been with the FBI more than 22 years. He began his FBI career at Headquarters,Washington, D.C. working in the Uniform Crime Reporting Program as a Statistical Assistant from March 1984- March 1987. In March 1987 Mr. Swanson resigned from the FBI to become a Police Officer with the UnitedStates Capitol Police (USCP), Washington, D.C. He stayed with USCP for nine years until his reappointment tothe FBI, CJIS Division, Clarksburg, West Virginia. He has worked in the CJIS Audit Unit conducting NCIC auditsas well as UCR audits. Mr. Swanson was one of four auditors who developed the current Quality AssuranceReview (QAR) that is used nationwide by the FBI to conduct UCR Audits.Currently, he is a certified FBI, Training Instructor assigned to the Resources Management Section, Training &Advisory Process Unit. Mr. Swanson has training responsibilities for 18 states and well as Federal & Tribalagencies. Mr. Swanson specializes in Uniform Crime Reporting Summary and National Incident-BasedReporting System (NIBRS) training as well as Hate Crime, Human Trafficking and Cargo Theft. Mr. Swansonhas conducted training in 49 states. He is the former NIBRS Coordinator for the FBI and was responsible forhelping bring on more than 16 states during his tenure as Coordinator.Bradley L. ZoladzFederal Bureau of Investigation – Training InstructorBradley Zoladz has worked for the FBI for almost 15 years and has over 18 years of teaching experience. Hehas taught local, city, and state law enforcement across the United States as well as the world including theCIA, NSA, Interpol, Norway Police, and Morocco National Police. Currently, he is a UCR Training Instructorassigned to 17 states and 2 U.S. territories. Mr. Zoladz is a member of the International Association ofIdentification and served on the Facial ID Committee.J. Kevin MacFarlandFederal Bureau of Investigation – Training InstructorJ. Kevin MacFarland is currently assigned to the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division of theFBI CJIS Training and Policy Unit, (CTAP) as a Training Instructor. His primary duties include the function oftraining/liaison representative to the majority of the southern region of the United States for the states ofAlabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. He isadditionally assigned in this capacity to the states of Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Utah;and the territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands for all Uniform Crime Reporting matters.His responsibilities include the UCR programs of the Summary Reporting System, the National Incident-BasedReporting System, and Hate Crime Reporting.Mr. MacFarland entered on duty with the FBI in July, 1989, and becamea National Crime Information Center ( NCIC) instructor in June, 1990. He earned his FBI Instructor’sCertification in 1992. With the creation of CJIS by the FBI in 1992, Mr. MacFarland’s training responsibilitiesexpanded to include all aspects of the Uniform Crime Reporting program.He served as the first chairman of the NIBRS Certification Board for the FBI from 1996-1998, and wasinvolved in assisting the European Union with the creation of a crime reporting process. Prior to employmentwith the FBI, Mr. MacFarland worked in the private sector for nine years. He earned a B.A. degree inCommunications from the University of Central Florida in 1983.

Joe BuhagiarTennessee Bureau of Investigation – Operations DirectorJoe Buhagiar is the CJIS and IT Core Architecture Operations Director at the Tennessee Bureau ofInvestigation. His primary job responsibilities include the oversight of the day to day operations of these 8units as well as the planning and execution of data driven metric improvements. Joe began his career at theTBI in 2013 as the Information Systems Division’s Operations Manager in charge of the division’s continuousimprovement programs. Before coming to the TBI, Joe served 7 years at the Williamson County Sheriff’sDepartment ending his career there as sergeant within the patrol division. His career started in the privatesector where he served 23 years at General Motors holding several management positions in an increasingcapacity before deciding to leave for an opportunity to serve at the TBI. Joe earned his bachelor’s degree atKettering University in 1991 majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Business Management. He is apublished technical writer and holds one of GM’s several classified thesis papers not open to the public.Dale KingTennessee Bureau of Investigation – CJIS Support Center SupervisorDale King is the CJIS Support Center Supervisor with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI). Assigned tothe Crime Statistics Unit in January 2002, his primary duty was to serve as an instructor for the TennesseeIncident Based Reporting System (TIBRS) Data Collection, Data Review, TnCOP Software and other TIBRSclasses. He also develops/writes the curriculum and materials used in TIBRS training. Since February, 2014he has supervised the TIBRS and TIES/NCIC (Tennessee Information Center/National Crime InformationCenter) units. Dale has been associated with law enforcement for more thirty-five years, spending more thantwenty-one years as a commissioned police officer/sergeant with The University of Tennessee PoliceDepartment in Knoxville. Some of Dale’s duties at UTPD included supervision of Training, Crime Prevention,NCIC and TIBRS Operations, and Communications. He also served as captain of the UTPD pistol team formore than 10 years. Dale has presented more than 1,500 crime prevention programs and training sessions intwenty-two states. He has also been active in self-defense training for 40 years. He has been certified as aself-defense instructor since 1974, and a Rape Aggression Defense Systems (R.A.D.) Instructor since 1992. Hewas appointed to the position of R.A.D. Instructor Trainer in August, 1993. Dale also trains law enforcementofficers and private citizens in the defensive use of the Kubaton. In 1995 he co-wrote the training curriculumfor R.A.D. Keychain (Kubaton) Defense Options (KDO), a self-defense program for women. He was appointedto the position of R.A.D. KDO Staff Instructor in 1995, and is a charter member of the R.A.D. Hall of Fame. Daleis married to Lisa King. They currently reside in Madison, TN.Jim PingelURL Integration – Integration Practice ManagerJim Pingel is the Integration Practice Manager at URL Integration. URL’s portfolio of standards-drivenintegration projects includes the State of Iowa’s CJIS Program, Lake County, Illinois court eFiling, and CAD lawenforcement integration in DuPage County, Illinois. All of URL’s integration work employs national justiceinformation-sharing standards, including NIEM and the Global Reference Architecture (GRA).Jim has chaired the IJIS Institute’s UCR Subcommittee since 2012. The subcommittee promotes direct ,ongoing interaction among ASUCRP, the FBI’s UCR Program Office, and the industry providers of RMS, CAD,and State Program systems and services.In previous roles, Jim managed the NIEM Business Advisory Committee (NBAC), directed Wisconsin’s JusticeInformation Sharing (WIJIS) Program, and served the Milwaukee Police Department as its FinanceManager. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin, and is aCertified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Paul WormeliIJIS – Innovation StrategistPaul Wormeli is an innovator and entrepreneur who has focused his career on the application of informationtechnology to public safety, law enforcement, criminal justice, and homeland security. He has introducedinnovative programs in public policy, as well as innovations in the use of technology. He has been active in thedevelopment of software products, has managed system implementation for dozens of agencies throughoutthe world, and has managed national programs in support of law enforcement and criminal justice agencies.Mr. Wormeli was the first national project director of Project SEARCH and was subsequently appointed by thePresident as Deputy Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) in the U.S.Department of Justice (DOJ). Mr. Wormeli helped design the first mobile computing equipment sold in thiscountry to law enforcement agencies. At Project SEARCH, he led the development of a common protocol forinterconnecting diverse proprietary protocols to enable the nationwide sharing of criminal historyinformation. Mr. Wormeli managed the staff work and wrote much of the report for the 'Information Systems'section in the report of the National Advisory Commission on Standards and Goals for Criminal Justice. Hewas the project manager for the development of the first crime analysis handbook published by the NationalInstitute of Justice (NIJ). He has been an advisor to the White House on security and privacy, participated inthe drafting of Federal law on this topic, and was responsible for the development of numerous state plans toimplement the Federal and state laws on information system security and privacy. During his tenure in theJustice Department, he served on the President's Committee on Drug Enforcement. For his full bio a L. KlingensmithFederal Bureau of Investigation – Management and Program AnalystMs. Klingensmith has been employed with the FBI CJIS Division since January 1997. She began her career inUniform Crime Reporting in the CJIS Division Audit Unit where she served as a Quality Assurance ReviewAnalyst until 2006. Ms. Klingensmith has since worked in several areas within the CJIS Division, as well as afew tours within the FBI LEGAT program in Lagos, Nigeria and Mexico City, MX. Before returning in February,2015 to the UCR as a Management and Program Analyst for the CJIS Crime Statistics Management Unit,Programs Development Group, Ms. Klingensmith worked for the CJIS Information Assurance Unit where shedirectly assisted the Unit Chief/Information Security Officer for the FBI CJIS Division as the BudgetRepresentative; Contracting Officer Representative; Security and Access Subcommittee DFO; and CompactCouncil Representative. Ms. Klingensmith currently is assigned the initiatives of Cargo Theft and HumanTrafficking and works to collect and complete data for analysis and reporting.Kristi DonahueFederal Bureau of Investigation – UCR Hate Crime CoordinatorKristi Donahue has been an employee of the FBI CJIS Division since May 1995. She has served as the HateCrime Coordinator for the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for the last five years. Ms. Donahuehas worked for the UCR Program in various capacities (Statistical Assistant, Technical Information Specialist,and Management & Program Analyst) for nearly 20 years. Ms. Donahue frequently attends meetings withgovernment and non-government agencies to report ongoing concerns associated with the FBI UCRProgram’s Hate Crime Data Collection. In 2013 and 2014, Ms. Donahue worked with various groups toimplement the collection of the new religion and Arab bias motivations into the FBI’s Hate Crime DataCollection. She most recently participated in two hate crime training events in California and Mississippi thatwere sponsored by the local United States Attorney’s Offices in conjunction with the Matthew ShepardFoundation. Ms. Donahue is scheduled to participate in two more of these events in the coming weeks. She isalso currently assigned to the initiatives of Domestic Violence and Vehicular Manslaughter for developmentinto the National Incident-Based Reporting System.

Nelson FerryFederal Bureau of Investigation – Management and Program AnalystNelson Ferry is a Management and Program Analyst with the Federal Bureau of Investigation currentlyassigned to the Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Nelsonreceived his bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale,Illinois in 2001 and his Master’s in Computer Management and Information Systems from Southern IllinoisUniversity in Edw

Metropolitan Nashville Police Department - Commander of the Specialized Investigations Division Captain Michael Alexander is a 24 year veteran of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. He has served in the Field Operations Bureau as a Precinct Commander responsible for 79 square miles of Davidson County with approximately 200 personnel.